The Role of Systolic- Versus Diatolic-Contingent Feedback in Blood Pressure Conditioning
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32 volunteer normotensive college students served as Ss in an experiment designed to compare systolic-contingent with diastolic-contingent feedback. When compared in terms of systolic blood pressure, neither the systolic nor the diastolic contingency produced a significant change, but analysis of S’s diastolic blood pressure scores revealed a diastolic contingency to be most effective. Follow-up scores obtained 3 weeks after training failed to show any differences, and several possible explanations for this are proposed.
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